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Vistra's battery storage facility goes up in flames, spurs evacuation orders (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Yeah, I think massive chemical batteries for storing excess electricity to facilitate a contrived green energy market is a bad idea.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Electrolisis is relatively inefficient and wears down the electrodes. While not as bad on an industrial scale, those are still problems. And then you have to convert it back, that is even less efficient.

Good in theory, barely passable in practice. Growing sugar cane and making ethanol would be better, like brazil does it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

What do you mean by "convert it back"? Convert it back to electricity for the grid? No. We need the hydrogen for important things, like making steel and fertilizer.